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Quantum Incident Response and Recovery Planning

Updating incident response playbooks and recovery procedures for quantum-enabled attack scenarios.

Half day (3 hours)
Certificate on completion

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Entopya
Belden
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Course Overview

For SOC managers, incident response leads, and business continuity planners. Covers quantum-era breach scenarios, detection and triage of cryptographic compromise (pre-CRQC and post-CRQC indicators), playbook design for key revocation at scale, CA compromise response, hybrid mode failure handling, and business continuity plan updates for quantum-enabled threats.

Curriculum

Course content is structured into sessions below. Each session is configurable to your organisation's environment, threat model, and objectives.

# Session Topics
1 Quantum-Era Breach Scenarios How cryptographic compromise changes the incident response landscape
2 Detection and Triage for Cryptographic Compromise Identifying quantum-relevant incidents before and after CRQC availability
  • Pre-CRQC indicators: anomalous data exfiltration patterns consistent with harvest-now-decrypt-later collection (bulk encrypted traffic capture, targeting of key exchange metadata, unusual interest in archived data)
  • Post-CRQC indicators: sudden access to previously encrypted data, mass key compromise signatures, certificate authority trust chain failures following quantum cryptanalysis
  • Triage decision tree: distinguishing classical cryptographic failures (implementation bugs, key leaks) from quantum-enabled compromise. Escalation criteria for CISO and board notification.
Break
3 Playbook Design for PQC-Related Failures Building quantum-specific incident response procedures
  • Key revocation at scale: procedures for emergency rotation of compromised key hierarchies across HSMs, cloud KMS, and certificate authorities. Time-to-revoke estimates for different infrastructure architectures.
  • Certificate authority compromise response: what happens when a CA signing key is broken by quantum attack. OCSP/CRL scaling, trust chain reconstruction, and cross-signed certificate fallback.
  • Hybrid mode failure scenarios: incident response when a PQC hybrid deployment fails (ML-KEM implementation bug, interoperability failure). Rollback to classical-only and re-migration procedures.
4 Business Continuity and Recovery Planning Updating BCP for the quantum threat environment
  • Recovery time objectives: how quantum-enabled compromise changes RTOs for re-encryption of data at rest, certificate reissuance, and VPN tunnel re-establishment
  • Communication protocols: regulatory notification requirements (GDPR 72-hour, NIS2, sector-specific) when cryptographic compromise affects personal or classified data
  • Tabletop exercise framework: a structured scenario for testing quantum incident response readiness. Participants receive the exercise framework for use in their own organisations.

Designed and Delivered By

Training courses are designed and delivered by QSECDEF in collaboration with subject specialists. All instructors have direct experience in quantum technologies and security.

QD

Quantum Security Defence

Course design and delivery

QSECDEF brings expertise in post-quantum cryptography, quantum computing strategy, and defence-grade security assessment. Our membership spans 900+ organisations and 1,500+ professionals working at the intersection of quantum technologies and critical infrastructure security.

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